go-bindata-assetfs

Serve embedded files from tmthrgd/go-bindata with net/http.

Installation

Install with

$ go get github.com/tmthrgd/go-bindata/...
$ go get github.com/elazarl/go-bindata-assetfs/...

Creating embedded data

Usage is identical to tmthrgd/go-bindata usage, instead of running go-bindata run go-bindata-assetfs.

The tool will create a bindata_assetfs.go file, which contains the embedded data.

A typical use case is

$ go-bindata-assetfs data/...

Using assetFS in your code

The generated file provides an assetFS() function that returns a http.Filesystem wrapping the embedded files. What you usually want to do is:

http.Handle("/", http.FileServer(assetFS()))

This would run an HTTP server serving the embedded files.

Without running binary tool

You can always just run the go-bindata tool, and then

use

 import "github.com/tvmaly/go-bindata-assetfs"
 ...
 http.Handle("/",
    http.FileServer(
    &assetfs.AssetFS{Asset: Asset, AssetDir: AssetDir, AssetInfo: AssetInfo, Prefix: "data"}))

to serve files embedded from the data directory.

Example of using it with Gin framework

see gin-contrib/static

Background history of this fork

There is some controversy around the repository github.com/jteeuwen. The original username was deleted from github.
Someone else ( not the original jtweeuwen owner ) created a new github account using jteeuwen and created a new repository go-bindata.

I had an older copy of the github.com/jteeuwen/go-bindata on my computer, but this was causing a number of errors on OSX.

I came across a fork ( github.com/tmthrgd/go-bindata ) of the original repository that was completely re-written and is well maintained.

Parts of it were not compatible with github.com/elazarl/go-bindata-assetfs so this fork github.com/tvmaly/go-bindata-assetfs was created to be compatible with github.com/tmthrgd/go-bindata.

My primary motivation was have a way to embed the statis assets in the binary of my Gin based web projects.

This will work for other frameworks as it the http.FileServer interface